> Steve Harris wrote: >> http://www.coyoterd.com/musican.htm >> >> Runs Windows ME (yuk!) out of the box, but I'm guessing you could >> rebuild it into a linux box. >> >> - Steve Win ME "Crash-proofed" ????? Hahahahahahahahahaha a bright spot in an otherwise grey day!! :} >> >> > > We use a lot (like a 1000?) of these sort of server boxes for our Gaming > business. http://www.homelanfed.com A few comments: > > 1) Usually these servers are pretty deep cases and would stick way out > of the back of a normal rack full of studio equipment. This one looks > pretty cool at only 13" deep. > > 2) Be sure on this one that you like the motherboard in the box. It > doesn't look like a normal PC MB but something considerably smaller. Not > sure if you can replace that one very easily. > > 3) In general these cases are meant to go into noisy server rooms, which > are made noisy be noisy servers. (Get my point?) Anyway, I don't see > any specs on what sort of noise this one produces, but even one of > those we have here in the office would drive you nuts in 15 minutes I > think. (Even in a closet they are too noisy!) > > I love the idea of a stack af about 8 of these running Linux apps. Oh > yeah, the HomeLAN guys run a lot of Linux servers.... > > Mark
